I have been running a virtualbox of Ubuntu Server for web development and have been getting along quite nicely. I decided to install Ubuntu Desktop via "sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop" so I can use Sublime Text until I get better with Vim. I have been SSH into my VM from PuTTY, and had my .bashrc set up how I liked it. Now that I have the GUI installed though, many bash commands aren't working and my shell settings are different.

For example, 'ls' now gives me this error:

ls: cannot access .color=auto: No such file or directory

I have verified that I am using /bin/bash via:

echo $SHELL

I believe it has something to do with using a non-login version of bash vs a login version over SSH, but I have tried sourcing the .bashrc and .profile to no avail. What am I doing wrong?